Contemplating Pure Beauty

Have you tried bathing in a well? I have tried and this experience made me admire the beauty of nature. Can you imagine how God made all this things? This is a very great miracle! Water under the land. Clean fresh and free… We had a vacation last month in our province, which was located somewhere in the northern part of Cebu. This place is very delicate and the environment was very clean. The beauty of nature was still preserved and in that place you will realize that people could live a simple and better way of living from the resources in the environment. The people were all friendly and this made my vacation remarkable. In the morning, we are awakened by the roaster’s load croak and not by the annoying sound of the alarm clocks as how we used to be here in the city. The fresh and crisp dew refreshed myself for a new day. To replenish my body I should take a bath first, but where? My cousins and I were planning to go to a nearby well and take a bath there. I was really excited about it and ready all the things I needed. The well was just a walking distance from our house. Around the well were the slender banana plants and other big trees. The mouth of the well was covered with the thick pile of moss and vines We started to take a bath and used the ladle with a rope in it or called timba in colloquial speech. The well was not that profound and the substructure could be visibly seen. The water was glimmering like a glass and was incredibly hygienic. It was really icy that I found myself shuddering with the coldness of the water. The vociferous sound of silence was really all around because we were only the ones there. So in order to thrill ourselves, we chat for our experiences in the school and the kind of classmates we have. Suddenly we found ourselves busy talking and accidentally the timba fell inside the well. The three of us really felt worried because our grandmother is going to scold us. We thought of way on how to get that thing out from the water. My younger cousin decided to go inside and get it but I refused because she might be injured and the more problem we will have. But she didn’t even care to listen to my words but went inside the well in order to get that ladle out. I was relieved when I saw her gong up bringing with her was the ladle and she was not hurt even a single bruise. The three of us hugged each other and cheered up. And now it was time to go home! That experience alone was really memorable for me. That made me appreciate the beauty of our ‘mother nature’. And I learned that a family that prays together stays together and that was the thing that determined to get over that obstacle. But the very special lesson that I learned was to ‘Contemplate The Pure Beauty”.